Rough around the edges, and rougher still at its core, Howard Chaykin’s boundary-shattering immersion into noir at its bleakest has seen its legend as comics’ dirty little secret grow for more than two decades.

Down-on-his-luck jazz musician Cass Pollack plummets into an unrelenting nightmare of sex and death, lost in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, where life is cheap and every shadow holds a fearsome secret.

Still as smart and savage as when it was new, Chaykin’s brutally coarse masterwork is re-mastered for this Dynamite edition, which collects the entire 12-issue series.